You are the Operations Manager for a trailer manufacturing company

On the Plant Information tab you have the production results from 2 manufacturing plants that belong to your company
The two plants make the same trailers and have very similar people and processes, but the number of trailers they p
The company President has told you that she is worried about production. She gives you no other details about what "worried
You decide that you need to prove to the President that you are adding value to the company by addressing her "worries"

Your task:
Develop a Word document report that specifically addresses the following question
Which plant she should focus improvement efforts on, and why?

To develop your recommendation you need to perform at least the following analysis:
Make a time-series plot to compare the two plants to each other
Make a histogram of each plant to show production results
Calculate the following and use results to make recommendations
Mean
Median
Mode
Standard Deviation

The Final report should have the following sections:

Title page - (Make the title real, don’t use MGT 307 information)
Problem statement - This should be one sentence, but make it a good one
Methodology - this will be at least a couple of paragraphs to say what you have done to analyze the problem
Assumptions - this is one paragraph and includes any assumptions that you made
Analysis - present your results (graphs, tables, and sentences to explain them)
Recommendation - this should be a one paragraph conclusion/recommendation based on your analysis

See the "Grading" worksheet for the grading criteria

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3-Jan 166 256
4-Jan 168 233
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9-Jan 196 106
10-Jan 164 238
11-Jan 193 139
12-Jan 188 255
13-Jan 186 99
14-Jan 195 108
15-Jan 174 175
16-Jan 194 129
17-Jan 196 156
18-Jan 171 276
19-Jan 183 104
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24-Jan 169 98
25-Jan 187 77
26-Jan 161 248
27-Jan 175 273
28-Jan 184 145
29-Jan 193 159
30-Jan 183 164
31-Jan 160 194
1-Feb 189 152
2-Feb 191 98
3-Feb 166 167
4-Feb 160 117
5-Feb 196 93
6-Feb 168 180
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8-Feb 167 100 250

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10-Feb 173 176
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12-Feb 181 127 100

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Accuracy Discussion
Total Individual Total Individual
40 40 To develop your recommendation you need to perform at least the following analysi
15 10 Make a time-series plot to compare the two plants to each other
15 10 Make a histogram of each plant to show production results
Calculate the following and use results to make recommendations
2.5 5 Mean
2.5 5 Median
2.5 5 Mode
2.5 5 Standard Deviation
Format and logical flow/believability
Total 20 The Final report should have the following sections:
5 Title page - (Make the title real, don’t use BUSI3311 information)
3 Problem statement - This should be one sentence, but make it a good one
3 Methodology - this will be at least a couple of paragraphs to say what you
3 Assumptions - this is one paragraph and includes any assumptions that yo
3 Analysis - present your results (graphs, tables, and sentences to explain th
3 Recommendation - this should be a one paragraph conclusion/recommen
orm at least the following analysis:
wo plants to each other
production results
make recommendations

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entence, but make it a good one
le of paragraphs to say what you have done to analyze the problem
ncludes any assumptions that you made
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paragraph conclusion/recommendation based on your analysis
Assignment 1

Accuracy
Total Individual
Actual Max
15 Make a time-series plot to compare the two plants to each other
15 Make a histogram of each plant to show production results
2.5 Mean
2.5 Median
2.5 Mode
2.5 Standard Deviation

Discussion
Total Individual
Actual Max
10 Make a time-series plot to compare the two plants to each other
10 Make a histogram of each plant to show production results
5 Mean
5 Median
5 Mode
5 Standard Deviation

Format and logical flow/believability

Actual Max
5 Title page - (Make the title real, don’t use GB311 information)
3 Problem statement - This should be one sentence, but make it good
3 Methodology - this will be at least a couple of paragraphs
3 Assumptions - one paragraph and includes all assumptions you made
3 Analysis - present results (graphs, tables, and sentences to explain)
3 Recommendation - one paragraph conclusion/recommendation

Final Grade